Trump Plans To ‘Permanently Eliminate’ Billions of Dollars in Democratic Priorities Amid Government Shutdown

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Trump Plans To ‘Permanently Eliminate’ Billions of Dollars in Democratic Priorities Amid Government Shutdown

‘Because of the shutdown … we’re able to take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse,’ the president says.

www.nysun.com

‘Because of the shutdown … we’re able to take out billions and billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and abuse,’ the president says.

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Trump uses shutdown to reduce size of government. lol. Priceless.

 

[dwb]

The article is behind a paywall or email solicitation.

 

[TCC]

The article is behind a paywall or email solicitation.

Sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know. This article might suffice in regards to using the shut down to reduce government.

MSN

 

[Tall Timbers]

MSN

That link just takes you to msn and not to a specific article.

 

[Hol]

Trump: Only Cutting Dem Programs, 'Taste of Their Medicine'​

President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to make permanent spending cuts targeting "Democrat programs" first with Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, giving shutdown Democrats "a little taste of their own medicine."

"We'll be making cuts that will be permanent," Trump said during Thursday's Cabinet meeting. "And we're only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you.

"I guess that's makes sense, but we're only cutting Democrat programs, but we're going to start that."

https://www.newsmax.com/us/government-shutdown-democrats/2025/10/09/id/1229675/

 

[Tall Timbers]

We still need to cut out at least 1.8 trillion in annual govmint spending...

 

[TCC]

That link just takes you to msn and not to a specific article.

Hi TT. Not sure why this might be happening. The link takes me to the headlline:

The ‘Schumer shutdown’ could be Trump's best chance to drain the swamp​

Asked why the White House might take advantage of this opportunity to cut overhead, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered, "Because we have an administration and we have a president who are wholeheartedly focused on restoring fiscal sanity to our government and doing the right thing by the American taxpayer."

Spending is popular and politically appealing; retrenchment is not. To its credit, the Trump administration has boldly attempted to cut waste and fraud, estimated by former President Joe Biden’s own General Accountability Office (GAO) to total $233 billion to $521 billion each year.

The public isn’t fooled. A survey done by the CATO Institute in April showed the public believes that the government "wastes 59¢ of every $1 it spends." That’s quite an indictment and probably explains why 89 percent of respondents were in favor of auditing all government spending, in order to root out waste and fraud. Moreover, CATO found that "Americans Would Cut 40 Percent Across the Board."

 

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[Margery]

My late father would call this "Make Hay While the Sun Shines" - the cariboo expression for get 'er done fast before the window of opportunity closes.